Maree Pycroft Email & Phone Number

Rolleston, Canterbury

Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch

I joined Fulton Hogan in October 2011 to support the Christchurch rebuild. I was seconded to SCIRT, the alliance that was established to rebuild the Christchurch City’s earthquake damaged roads, fresh water, wastewater and stormwater networks. The role provided executive support to 2 Delivery Managers and administration support and coordination of the Delivery Team to achieve project requirements and deadlines. I gained a good understanding of horizontal infrastructure, sub-contractor and supplier requirements to maintain services and the importance of eliminating and reducing losses and interruptions of services to the community.1. Provided personal assistance to the Delivery Managers2. Co-ordinated meetings including preparation of agenda, papers and minutes3. Supported the Tactical Leadership Group, made up of Delivery Managers from Fulton Hogan, McConnell Dow, Downer, City Care and Fletcher Construction4. Provided administration support to the Delivery Team consisting of Project Coordinators, Schedulers, Property, Utilities, Handover and Commissioning Coordinators, Central City Liaison and Traffic Management5. Coordinated sub-contractors including management of SCIRT compliance requirements, performance reviews and verification audits, organised briefings, focus groups and workshops and assisted with queries and information6. Coordinated site visits liaising with Site Engineers and Project Managers and ensured correct PPE7. Document control8. Managed Requests for Information (RFIs), Non Compliance Reports (NCRs) and Work Scope Changes (WSCs) through the SCIRT Project Management System, followed through responses liaising with designers and delivery teams through to close out.9. Assisted in the development of an emergency response plan adopted by the Delivery Teams and the ongoing management and coordination of emergency response.

Dunsandel

Synlait is an integrated Canterbury dairy farm owner and milk processor that manufactures raw milk into milk powder and AMF, as ingredients for dairy consumer companies or repacking under customer brands. The position of Executive Assistant provided confidential personal and executive support to the CEO and Senior Management team, secretarial support to the Board of Directors and management of administrative services for the Synlait office.I supported the CEO and Board achieve a number of key milestones, from the purchase and development of farms, the building of the milk manufacturing plant and a number of capital raising activities. Maximised the effectiveness of the CEO and the Senior Management Team by providing high quality, confidential administration and secretarial support.  Supported the Board of Directors relative to their meeting processes and statutory responsibilities; Acted in an advisory capacity on all administrative matters and as delegated by the CEO, initiated, developed and executed administrative directives; The role included frequent and sensitive customer, board and shareholder contact, generally at an executive level as well as extensive company management contact; Provided a high level of professionalism and commercial disciplines to Synlait and developed an effective, customer focused support team; Managed the office administration and business support services and implemented consistent office systems and procedures that met Synlait Policies; Managed the performance and development of the Receptionist and Group Personal Assistant.